I have found an article on the independents website titled 'Hatred of America Unites the World'. The article gives different reasons as to why different countries may hate America, poll results of peoples opinions on America and Americas thoughts and reactions to other countries dislike for them.
The article says that "being hated is what happens to dominant empires", this being a main reason for why America is targeted with so much hate from all over the world. It also discusses how the countries that America thinks are it's biggest threats or enemies do not always reciprocate the hatred and that many of Americas so called allies look unfavourably towards them.
It shows the change in attitude Britain has towards America from 1999 where 83 percent of Brits had a positive opinion of America which falls to 56 percent only 7 years later in 2006. It also shows that Britain, as a whole, surprisingly favours both Japan and Germany over America as 69 and 75 percent favour the two countries.
As well as all of this it shows that some countries are quite suspicious of America with the example of Germany believing that during the situation with Sadam Hussain and the weapons of mass destruction 60 percent of Germans believed that it was actually to do with America wanting to control Middle Eastern Oil and 47 percent thought it was to do with America and world domination.
The article gives a lot of interesting facts about countries opinions towards America and I like the way that it compares several different countries opinions rather than focusing on just one.
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